March 4, 2018 ~ Lenten Reflections (English & Espanol)

Today’s first reading (Exodus 17:3-7) brings to light the weariness and complaint of the Israelites against God and Moses as they yearn for water to drink. Despite their sin of despair, their thirst was quenched by God through the waters from the rock at Massah and Meribah. However, the Israelites were thirsty again.

The gospel reading presents Christ’s encounter with the Samaritan woman, an encounter that reveals Him as the well/source of the living water that will forever quench all thirsts. The gospel puts it this way: “whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life" (John 4:14).

All of us, like the woman of Samaria, thirst for the living water, and Jesus is ready to quench our thirst. Today, we are enjoined to review our lives before our savior Jesus Christ just as the Samaritan woman did, and lay bare before God whatever faults, weaknesses and hidden wounds that might prevent us from drinking from the well of living water.